allonlinenovel Chapter 313 Do You Know - Xiao Qinshi 40
Chapter 313 Do You Know - Xiao Qinshi 40
Even though Empress Cao had a plan in mind, she was still worried for days. Now that the emperor had concluded his investigation, Empress Cao finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, when she thought about how the emperor had issued an edict in front of everyone to reprimand her for failing to manage the harem and causing the emperor's offspring to die, Empress Cao felt very embarrassed.
Empress Cao was already furious after receiving the imperial edict, and then she heard someone report that the emperor promoted everyone in order to compensate the murdered mothers of the royal heirs.
Among them, Concubine Zhao Shufei, who gave birth to two royal heirs, was not only promoted to Concubine Zhao Guifei, the first of the four concubines, but the emperor also divided the power of the harem into two to compensate her. Half remained in the hands of Empress Cao, and the other half was given to Concubine Zhao Guifei, the first person under the empress.
This time, Empress Cao couldn't help it at all. Without Nanny Wang to comfort her, it was good enough that Empress Cao just smashed things. You should know that Empress Cao was not a good-tempered girl before she married the emperor. In order to become a qualified queen, Empress Cao forced herself to be gentle, virtuous and generous.
Qin Wanrong never thought that this day would come for Concubine Zhao in this life. In her previous life, Concubine Zhao was just a Concubine Shu until her death. The emperor cared about Concubine Zhao a little more than other concubines, but the care was not much, and was never as much as that for the deceased Zhang Wanyi and the future Concubine Rong.
This time, Concubine Zhao rose to power, which made Empress Cao's life not as good as before. With Concubine Zhao fighting for power with Empress Cao, she could hide better.
After all, the emperor still has ten or twenty years to live. Qin Wanrong doesn't want her ambition to be exposed so quickly. It's not easy to be the first to stand out. I believe the emperor would prefer to see the separation of powers in the harem. After all, the triangle is the most stable structure.
Concubine Zhao has power and the emperor's trust, Empress Cao has status and righteousness, and she herself is favored and has a son. Perfect!
After the secret medicine incident, no matter the concubines in the palace or the ministers outside the palace dared to jump, Qin Wanrong's belly became bigger and bigger. After struggling for half a year, the emperor finally realized that he might not be able to recover in the future. In this case, it means that Qin Wanrong is very likely pregnant with his only son, the only heir to the throne.
So Qin Wanrong, who had finally had a period of peace, became prominent again because of the emperor's sudden concern. Without the influence of the secret medicine, the imperial doctors reported to the emperor that 'the royal heir is healthy' and 'Rong Taiyi is in good health'. This made the emperor very happy, and he rewarded her with a wave of his hand.
Everyone in the harem was very jealous of this. Some people were jealous of Qin Wanrong's favor, and more people were jealous of Qin Wanrong's good luck like Concubine Zhao. Their children were harmed by someone. Why was Qin Wanrong so lucky that she got pregnant as soon as she entered the palace? And the means that harmed them before she got pregnant were all found out.
Now Qin Wanrong's child will be born safely, and will not die like theirs did. How can these concubines who have suffered the pain of losing their children not be jealous?
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it is the day Qin Wanrong gives birth. She generously exchanges for drugs that can save the mother's life during the delivery process. Although it is not her own experience, she still has to use this body, and she cannot let it become tattered just for giving birth.
The emperor had long known from the imperial physician that Qin Wanrong was most likely pregnant with a prince, so naturally he took it very seriously when he learned that Qin Wanrong was giving birth. Liang Duzhi was waiting anxiously outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Laboring is very dangerous for a woman, and he was very afraid that something might happen to Qin Wanrong. However, the emperor had not yet left court, so there was nothing Liang Duzhi could do no matter how anxious he was.
When Qin Wanrong gave birth, she specially exchanged for a puppet. She transferred her soul into the puppet and hid in the delivery room to watch little Qin giving birth. Nanny Xing watched the midwife deliver the baby and did not give them a chance to do anything. The clerk sat outside the hall, directing the palace servants to boil water, call in the imperial physician, and also entertain Empress Cao, Concubine Zhao and others who came over. She was busy in full swing.
Everything seemed to be going very smoothly. Xiao Qin's cervix was already six fingers dilated, the fetus was in a normal position, and she would be able to give birth successfully soon. At this moment, a midwife took advantage of Nanny Xing's inattention, pulled out a piece of white silk from her sleeve, rushed towards Nanny Xing, and put the noose around her.
Just as Nanny Xing was about to shout for help, another midwife's expression changed and she also came to help. The remaining two midwives looked at each other with flickering eyes, a little panicked but did not run away or call for help.
Qin Wanrong saw it from behind the curtain, and her eyes instantly turned cold. She had underestimated these women in the harem. She knew that she would be plotted against during childbirth, so she specially cloned herself and took the detection robot to check everything on the midwife and in the delivery room.
In order to avoid being backstabbed by others, he deliberately confiscated all the palace servants and only relied on the clerk and Nanny Xing. However, he did not expect these people to be so bold. It seemed that the group that took action and the group that watched were not sent by the same person.
Nanny Xing had been strangled unconscious by the white silk and was about to die. Qin Wanrong suddenly rushed out from behind the curtain, first cut the throat of the midwife who was strangling Nanny Xing with a knife, and when the other midwife who was covering Nanny Xing's mouth to prevent her from screaming had not reacted, she turned around and stabbed the midwife's heart with her backhand.
Seeing this, the other two midwives finally got scared and started to run away. Qin Wanrong's eyes flashed, and she jumped up and kicked the midwife who was almost at the door, knocking her unconscious. The other midwife, seeing that she could not escape, immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.
Qin Wanrong grabbed the midwife's collar with a knife in one hand and dragged her to the bedside of Xiao Qin: "Deliver her right now. If there is any problem between her and the prince, you will die."
The midwife began to deliver the baby tremblingly. While checking the progress of Xiao Qin's delivery, she secretly turned her head to peek at Qin Wanrong's expression. Qin Wanrong was gently wiping the blood off the knife with a handkerchief.
Qin Wanrong noticed the midwife's sneak peek, but she didn't care. She wanted to see what this person was trying to do.
The other two midwives should be the kind of assassins, whose purpose should be to kill Xiao Qin and spare her life. However, these two midwives did not want to kill themselves, and it seemed that they wanted to make Xiao Qin have a difficult delivery. It seemed that they were planning to kill the mother and save the child.
There was no one else who could adopt a prince except Empress Cao, but now that Empress Cao was suspected by the emperor, Concubine Zhao also had the opportunity. Qin Wanrong guessed that the person behind the scenes should be between Empress Cao and Concubine Zhao.
The midwife noticed that Qin Wanrong was not paying attention and was wiping the blood off the knife. She changed her mind and quietly prepared to take action. She touched little Qin's belly and secretly applied force.
As long as the fetus's head is pushed a little bit to the side, it will make the mother's delivery more difficult. If it takes too long, she will run out of strength, and then she will take the labor-inducing drug and the job will be done!